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Steve Martinactor, author, and friend of Gray Foyexamines one of Foys drawings, after a cache of works on paper was discovered in his estate in 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gray Foy: the name may not be familiar today, but Foy was a gifted midcentury artist, tastemaker, and beloved fixture of New York cultural life. Six years after his death at 90, and over 40 years since he stopped creating art, Gray Foy (19222012) is the subject of a landmark exhibition and publication. These bring to light his prodigious talent as an artist and draftsman, one whose works may be found in major American museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others, and in numerous private collections. From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, Foys drawings were featured in gallery and museum exhibitions and his illustrations appeared in magazines and on book jackets and classical record album covers. This fall, Foys work is presented in Gray Foy: Drawings 19411975, a lavish book published on September 1, 2018, b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama (2-L) opens the exhibition Buddha's Life, Path to the Present at De Nieuwe kerk in Amsterdam on September 15, 2018. The 83-year-old Dalai Lama will be in the Netherlands for four days. Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP
| Ferdinand Hodler's theory of parallelism explored in new exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bern | | MoMA opens the first major museum exhibition to focus on the Judson Dance Theater | | Kremlin sparkle: Russian museum showcases celebrity jewels |
Ferdinand Hodler, Selbstbildnis, 1912. Ãl auf Leinwand, 35.5 x 27 cm. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Geschenk der Erben von Dr. Thodor Reinhart, 1919 © Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
BERN.- To commemorate the centenary of the death of Ferdinand Hodler, the Kunstmuseum Bern is jointly with the Musées dart et dhistoire de Genève mounting a large special exhibition. The show presents the work of this famous Swiss artist from a new perspective: from that of his theory of parallelism. In 1897, Hodler stated in his lecture on the goal of artists that «it is the quest of the artist to express the eternal element of nature and beauty, and reveal its essential beauty». In the lecture he explains his perception of the world and makes this understanding the fundamental idea behind his oeuvre. With «beauty» he actually meant an order intrinsic to nature, one of the repetition of forms and colours. In his eyes this phenomenon excited the pleasing effect of unity in the attentive beholder. Hodler believed that it presented a universal law, which he called ... More | |
Peter Moores photograph of Lucinda Childs in Egg Deal, 1963. Performed at Concert of Dance #13, Judson Memorial Church, New York, November 20, 1963. © Barbara Moore/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done, a major exhibition that looks anew at the formative moment in the 1960s when a group of choreographers, visual artists, composers, and filmmakers made use of a local church to present groundbreaking cross-disciplinary performances. Featuring celebrated dance works by Judson artists, The Work Is Never Done includes a gallery exhibition, a print publication, and an ambitious performance program in the Museums Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. On view from September 16, 2018, through February 3, 2019, the exhibition highlights the groups ethos of collaboration and the range of its participants through live performance and some 300 objects including films, photographic documentation, sculptural objects, ... More | |
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MOSCOW (AFP).- Once worn by global celebrities ranging from Sofia Loren to Naomi Campbell, hundreds of priceless emerald, diamond and pearl pieces of jewelry are on show at the Kremlin. The collection spans 130 years of the Bulgari luxury brand, now part of France's LVMH group, and contains 511 creations shown at the Moscow Kremlin Museums in an exhibit named "Tribute to Femininity". It includes pieces from the 1870s -- the first created by company founder Sotirio Bulgari -- and jewelry incorporating gems and even ancient Greek and Roman coins. About 100 of the items come from private collectors. Bulgari has bought famous jewelry worn by actresses and will present Elizabeth Taylor's glittering collection as well as another recently purchased from the family of Italian actress Anna Magnani, the muse of directors Roberto Rossellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The exhibit is "the richest of all time" for the brand, Bulgari head Jean-Christophe Babin told AFP, adding that the Kremlin "houses one ... More |
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| An exhibition of works made in Italy by photographer Francesca Woodman opens at Victoria Miro Venice | | Sotheby's announces Contemporary Curated with Grammy-award winning music producer Swizz Beatz | | Biggest ever retrospective of the work of Franz West opens at the Centre Pompidou |
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Rome, Italy, 1977-1978. Gelatin silver, estate print 20.3 x 25.4 cm 8 x 10 in © Charles Woodman. Courtesy Charles Woodman, and Victoria Miro, London/Venice.
VENICE.- Victoria Miro opened an exhibition of works made in Italy by the celebrated photographer Francesca Woodman (19581981), including examples from the Eel Series, created in Venice in 1978. Born and raised in the United States, Francesca Woodman considered Italy her second home. She lived in Florence for a year as a child, attending second grade at a public school there, and spent her adolescent summers in Antella, Tuscany, where her parents purchased a farmhouse when the artist was 11 years-old. Shortly after this, at the age of 13, Woodman created her first self- portrait, and the genesis of her work until her death in 1981, aged just 22, is intrinsically linked to Italian art and culture. This exhibition is comprised of Italian images, including those Woodman made in 1977 and 1978, during the year she spent in Rome at the Rhode Island School ... More | |
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1983. Enamel on wood, 35 by 41 1/4 by 2 1/2 in. Estimate $600/800,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys shared highlights from their Contemporary Curated auction on 25 September in New York. Reflecting a dynamic ensemble of works from the Post-War and Contemporary periods with many exceptional highlights appearing at auction for the first time, Contemporary Curated is the foremost destination for new and seasoned collectors to acquire works by both established and emerging artists across varying price points. This season, Swizz Beatz lends his exceptional creative vision and passion for collecting art to select his favorite works from 300+ lots on offer. The internationally acclaimed music producer and entrepreneurs top picks include works by Sam Gilliam, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, Avery Singer, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kehinde Wiley and more. The Contemporary Curated pre-sale exhibition opens to the public on 20 ... More | |
Franz West, Kugel, 2006. Varnished aluminum. Diameter 180 cm. Selvaag Art Collection. Courtesy Peder Lund. Photo: Jon Benjamin Talleras.
PARIS.- From 12 September to 10 December 2018, the Centre Pompidou presents the biggest ever retrospective of the work of Franz West (19472012), including almost 200 artworks. Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, it represents the first opportunity to acknowledge the role of the Austrian artist, one of the most influential figures of art of the last half-century. The exhibition abundantly celebrates the artists work from 1972 to 2012. It includes his rarely exhibited drawings from the early 1970s as well as his first sculptures, the series of Passstücke, begun in 197374, and performative sculptures made to engage with the viewers to reveal their neuroses. The exhibition also includes a selection of the papier mâché sculptures of the 1980s, together with a number of collaborations with fellow artists, among them Herbert Brandl, Heimo Zobernig and Albert Oehlen. The show also features W ... More |
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| First comprehensive survey of Rachel Whiteread's work makes American debut at National Gallery of Art | | Regen Projects opens an exhibition of new paintings by Lari Pittman | | Exhibitions illuminate how the Cold War was fought through psychology, science, and culture |
Rachel Whiteread, Ghost, Ghost II, 2009. Polyurethane (fourteen parts) overall: 77 x 85 x 62.5 cm (30 5/16 x 33 7/16 x 24 5/8 in.) gross weight: 400 kg (881.84 lb.) approx. uncrated weight: 400 kg (881.84 lb.) Agnes Gund Collection © Rachel Whiteread 2018 Photo: © Tate (Joe Humphrys).
WASHINGTON, DC.- For the past 30 years, acclaimed British artist Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) has created a body of work that is wide-ranging in scale and medium, yet consistent in its process of casting the objects and spaces of everyday life. Whiteread deploys replication, reorientation, and repetition to trace a social past while bringing it into the present. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from September 16, 2018, through January 13, 2019, Rachel Whiteread is the first major survey of the artist's work. More than 100 objectsfrom her first casts of domestic furniture to her recent study for a commission for the new United States Embassy in Londonfill the Concourse galleries of the East Building and extend into its public spaces. Unique to the presentation in ... More | |
Installation view of Lari Pittman Portraits of Textiles & Portraits of Humans at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, September 15 October 27, 2018. Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Lari Pittman. On view are twelve portraits of textile fabrics arranged alongside their corresponding human portrait. This marks his eighth solo presentation at the gallery. Over the course of his decades-long career, Pittman has developed a singular visual aesthetic that has established him as one of the most important painters of his generation. His intricately constructed and multi-layered works draw on the history of painting with an emphasis on decoration and the applied arts. Pittmans signature style utilizes various methods of applying paint to the canvas, ranging from stencils to spray to unadulterated applications of the medium. Each work features a glossary of decorative marks, codes, and signifiers. This body of work is inspired by such diverse sources as the interdisciplinary ... More | |
Genrikh Frantsevich Bzhozovsky, Portrait of Ludmilla, 1965. Soviet Union.
CULVER CITY, CA.- The Cold War was waged not only through politics and the stockpiling of world-ending bombs, but in every sphere of life. Two new exhibitions at the Wende Museum illuminate how the Cold War was fought through psychology, science, and culture while provoking compelling questions about how art, media, and even our own minds might be at play in the ideological battles of today. The War of Nerves: Psychological Landscapes of the Cold War, a collaboration with Wellcome Collection (London), and Red Shoes: Love, Politics, and Dance During the Cold War are on view September 16, 2018, to January 13, 2019. The Cold War was in many ways a war of the mind. For forty years, as two superpowers struggled to impose their respective ideologies on the minds of the masses, they faced each other with fear, distrust, and nuclear brinkmanship. The war of nerves between East and West involved the promise of mutually assured destruct ... More |
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| Charles Trevelyan's first-ever U.S. solo show opens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York | | Peana opens 'Common Forms': A group exhibition curated by Owen Duffy | | Hirschl & Adler Modern opens exhibition of recent paintings by David Ligare |
Charles Trevelyan. Courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery | New York is presenting Fuse, Australian designer Charles Trevelyans solo exhibition, from September 13 through October 27, 2018. The exhibition marks the London-based designers first-ever US solo exhibition. Fuse features five new works executed in resin and Hotavlje stone mined from Slovenia and a selection of twelve recent pieces never-before-exhibited in the US. While the pieces are conceived in Trevelyans London-based studio, they are created and finished by the designer at Carpenters Workshop Gallerys Roissy workshop in France. New Works These news works, three tables and two benches, reveal the designers ongoing interest in scientific and engineering inquiry. Developed via an iterative process of sculpted prototypes, these pieces explore Trevelyans interest in the seams and points of connection created ... More | |
Doug Ashford, Red Day #4 1966, 2010. Tempera on wood, 40 x 31 cm. 15.7Â x 12.2 in.
MONTERREY.- This exhibition is a love letter to the common form, a type of recent abstraction related to the utopian movements of modernism. In the early twentieth century, modernists like JoaquÃn Torres GarcÃa and Luis Barragán pursued geometries that were, supposedly, universal. Accessible and applicable to all, these forms would, quixotically, change the world and unite subjects. Today, this exhibition exchanges the idealism of the universal for the more profane common, constellating works of art that allow us the space to imagine new ways of being together. What does it mean to pursue a utopian trajectory, today? While aspiring to the universal, the modernist projects of the early twentieth century were often, contradictorily, bound up with the construction of nationalism. The common forms in this exhibition offer wholeness and a sense of optimism ... More | |
Still Life with Polykleitian Head and Candles (Idea), 2018 (detail). Oil on canvas, 42 x 54 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- For over forty years, David Ligare has been making paintings that conceptually link ancient Greek philosophy to contemporary social needs. Through established painting tropes like the figure and the landscape, Ligare has been embedding tenets of Plato and Aristotle within deftly painted scenes allegorizing social issues such as literacy and homelessness. With Still Life, the artist continues his thesis by giving new meaning and a new history to that eponymous genre. Hirschl & Adler Modern is presenting these 16 recent paintings by David Ligare, in his third solo exhibition with the gallery. Central to the paintings in Still Life is the late afternoon sunlight, whose clarity essentializes the objects on display to create moments of profound stillness. Consider the calm of Still Life with Figs, Pomegranate, and Rose, in which every object falls into place as if they ... More |
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Solo exhibition of new and retro work by Pope.L opens at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces One thing after another (part two), a solo exhibition of new and retro work by Pope.L. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and the first in New York since he was awarded the Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2017. One thing after another (part two) elliptically follows Pope.Ls similarly titled exhibition at La Panacée in Montepellier the artists first major solo museum show in France. Pope.Ls practice often focuses on the uncertain but productive space between differences in language, class, race, and gender to create works that simultaneously enlist, mock and re-write convention. For Pope.L this gap is where ignorance interacts with hubris to create fresh tensions around authenticity, self and icon. The works on view in One thing after another (part two) are, as the artist ... More
Exhibition at Latvian National Museum of Art encourages children to think about values
RIGA.- An exhibition for child audiences Lets Be Friends? is on view in the 4th Floor Exhibition Halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) from 15 September to 28 October 2018. The display invites visitors to explore animal representations in art and encourages children to think about values like friendship, trust, compassion, love, and responsibility. The main goal of the project is to communicate with the youngest visitors of the museum about topics that are important and interesting to them during the time they develop a deeper understanding of the surrounding world. The chosen title Lets Be Friends? goes along with the way children explore and learn by asking questions. The collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art holds several dozens of artistically expressive paintings, graphic works ... More
Exhibition of works by Jacques Callot opens at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
MANNHEIM.- He is a master of the art of etching: Jacques Callot (Nancy 15921635) is considered to be one of the most important late Mannerist copper engravers of the early 17th century. He worked for Cosimo di Medici in Florence and later for the courts in Lorraine and Paris, the Netherlands and Spain. That he achieved international fame as an artist without any paintings, but exclusively as a result of his etchings is quite remarkable. Callot loved theatrical grotesques and elegant court scenes, while setting new standards with his war scenes from the Thirty Years War. His works thrive on his inexhaustible attention to detail which the etcher has lent a captivating presence, and despite their small size monumentality. In order to achieve this level of precision in his pictures Callot invented new etching techniques as well as employing stage-by-stage acid ... More
Pera Museum explores the architectural, historical significance of the Galatasaray High School
ISTANBUL.- Pera Museum is presenting a contemporary art exhibition exploring the multi-layered architectural, historical and sociocultural significance of the Galatasaray High School on the occasion of its 150th anniversary between 14 September and 25 November. School Square Galatasaray exhibition, aims to gaze into the past from the vantage point of the present through artworks by ten artists and groups that relate to the location, function, history and space of Galatasaray High School by means of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, sound and performance. Curated by Ãelenk Bafra, the exhibition brings together new productions by Antonio Cosentino, Barış Göktürk, biriken, Burak Delier, Elvan Alpay, Hasan Deniz, Hera BüyüktaşÃ§ıyan and Vahit Tuna along with Ali ... More
Galerie Urs Meile opens the first solo exhibition in the west of the emerging Chinese artist Ju Ting
LUCERNE.- Galerie Urs Meile announced the opening of the first solo exhibition in the west of the emerging Chinese artist Ju Ting (*1983). Her works are characterized by coalescing two conventional art media: painting and sculpture, and obscuring the boundary between the two. Being made of paint and occupying a two-dimensional picture plane, Ju Tings works seem to align themselves with the category of painting. However, they have a clear feel for the sculptural in both form and texture deconstructing the realms of painting. Graduating in printmaking from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2013, Ju Ting assumed the role of an independent artist with an orientation towards painting. However, far from committed to conventional expression, she began to experiment with manipulating images and familiar motifs using printmaking tools and techniques ... More
Bruce Silverstein Gallery opens solo exhibition featuring the work of Todd Hido
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents its fourth solo exhibition featuring the work of Todd Hido, in conjunction with the publication of his newest monograph, Bright Black World. The exhibition is comprised of 17 of the artists newest photographs, most of which have never been previously exhibited. For nearly three decades, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and stylized portraits. He has traversed North America capturing places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. Nordic mythology, specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which literally translates to the great winter, influenced many of Hidos new images, which allude to and provide form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending tundra. Exploring the dark topography of the Northern European landscape ... More
Landmark exhibition examines work of Ruth Asawa
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Ruth Asawa: Lifes Work, a career-spanning exhibition devoted to the important yet under-recognized artist. With some 60 sculptures and 20 drawings and collages, the exhibition for the first time tells the story of how Asawa (1926-2013) developed her technique and form, tracing her artistic trajectory from her years studying at Black Mountain College until the end of her career. On view from September 14, 2018 through February 16, 2019, the exhibition has been curated by Pulitzer Curator Tamara H. Schenkenberg. Pulitzer Director Cara Starke states, Though she has, until recently, been largely overlooked by the art establishment, Ruth Asawa was one of the most rigorous and inventive artists of her day. With this exhibition we hope to shed light on how she came to create sculptures that are, ... More
New installation connects two of Detroit's most iconic buildings
DETROIT, MICH.- Library Street Collective announced the installation of Detroit Skybridge by Phillip K. Smith, III in partnership with Bedrock, Quicken Loans Community Fund and Wayne County. Connecting two of Detroits most iconic buildings, One Woodward and the Guardian Building, the 100 foot long 16th floor skybridge will become a floating bar of light hovering over the streets of Downtown Detroit. Inspired by the modular white concrete of Yamasakis 1962 skyscraper and the mosaic of color within the 1929 Guardian Building, Smith has created a unique color program for this significantly scaled project. Composed of shifting gradients and moving planes of light, this precisely paced installation will merge art with architecture at the scale of the city. The pedestrian bridge was constructed in 1976 by architect Gino Rossetti to allow access for Michigan ... More
Celebrity portraits by legendary photographer Duane Michals on view at the Crocker Art Museum
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announced the opening of Duane Michals: The Portraitist, the first exhibition to provide a comprehensive overview of inventive portraits by the influential photographer who, in the 1960s, broke away from established documentary and fine-art photography traditions, and is still creating original work today. Spanning Michalss 60-year career, the exhibition features more than 125 portraits of American luminaries as well as anonymous individuals, family members, and friends. Many of the images are black-and-white photographs recently rediscovered by the artist in his New York apartment. The exhibition highlights the artists stylistically varied body of work through portraits that demonstrate his expansive toolkit sequenced images, multiple exposures, reflections, uncommon vantage points, collage, ... More
Solo exhibition of Korean artist Jong Oh on view at MARC STRAUS
NEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS is presenting its fourth solo exhibition of Korean artist Jong Oh set in the new third and fourth floor gallery spaces. The exhibition remains on view until October 16th, 2018. Ohs work challenges an architecture that is not meant to impose or overbear on what it houses. Taking neutral, white gallery walls and seemingly open spaces, Oh marks boundaries, molds air and generates a presence from what is initially perceived as sheer absence. These dramatic spatial gestures toy with perception to create a physical experience extending beyond the visual. Point extends to line, and line connects to line eventually creating an ephemeral shape, one that could have existed in space but required the work of the artist to truly take visible form. In practice, Ohs process is responsive and flexible, working as a conversation between ... More
albertz benda exhibits three bodies of work that span the past 40 years of Tadanori Yokoo's practice
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting a solo exhibition by Tadanori Yokoo, Death and Dreams, comprising three bodies of work that span the past 40 years of the acclaimed artists practice. On view from September 6 through October 13, the majority of the works in Death and Dreams are drawn from Yokoos recent exhibition at the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art in Kobe, Japan, which is dedicated to the artist. They are shown now both for the first time outside Japan and in a private gallery. Featuring the complete 1980 series Back of Head, the 2010 series Falling Woman, and the Mystery Woman series started in 2016, Death and Dreams examines the fascinating progression of the artists dialogue with portraiture, repetition, and appropriation of Japanese and Western popular culture over the course of four decades. Creating series of unique ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English photographer Henry Fox Talbot died September 17, 1877. William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (11 February 1800 - 17 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. In this image: William Henry Fox Talbot, Rev. Calvert Richard Jones, "The Fruit Sellers," before December 13, 1845, salted paper print from a calotype negative, H: 6 11/16 x W: 8 1/4 in. image, Gift of the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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